On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:26:22 -0400 (EDT), J Aaron Farr wrote: > How big were you thinking of making this? Your outline suggests > several pages at least. Or were you thinking of just one page?
It should be as short as we make make it, but no shorter :) > I had been thinking of putting together additional documents for > those interested in going through the incubator [1]. We regularly > get questions like: "I'm the lead for project ABC which would be a > great addition to Apache. How do we join?" Some points of your > outline touched on this, but I may still be interested in writing a > very simple, user friendly guide to contributing to the ASF. I'm > never satisfied with current documentation. :) Jakarta has some useful guidelines for the "do we qualify" question * http://jakarta.apache.org/site/newproject.html which people have used as the background for the emerging standard Incubator proposal format. > On a final note, I don't believe I have any SVN commit rights to > anything in the incubator. I can work up some Forrest or Docbook > XML stubs based on the outline and if everyone like them, then > perhaps I can get access to putting them somewhere. Or I could > start in the wiki, but in that case, I'd start on content rather > than the XML structure. The wiki sounds like a fine place to get started. -Ted. On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:26:22 -0400 (EDT), J Aaron Farr wrote: > Sounds good. Couple of questions and thoughts: > > How big were you thinking of making this? Your outline suggests > several pages at least. Or were you thinking of just one page? > > I suppose this is going to be authored in Forrest or perhaps > Docbook. > > I had been thinking of putting together additional documents for > those interested in going through the incubator [1]. We regularly > get questions like: "I'm the lead for project ABC which would be a > great addition to Apache. How do we join?" Some points of your > outline touched on this, but I may still be interested in writing a > very simple, user friendly guide to contributing to the ASF. I'm > never satisfied with current documentation. :) > > On a final note, I don't believe I have any SVN commit rights to > anything in the incubator. I can work up some Forrest or Docbook > XML stubs based on the outline and if everyone like them, then > perhaps I can get access to putting them somewhere. Or I could > start in the wiki, but in that case, I'd start on content rather > than the XML structure. > > jaaron > > [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator- > general&m=109181155826131&w=2 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
